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Hog-nosed Viper

Porthidium nasutus

Description:

Small viper, mostly from the caribean rainforest in, it is terrestrial but a couple times I have seen it in branches and into the foliage close to the forest floor, it is very dosil but also poisonous.

Habitat:

Rainforest

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2 Comments

Jonathan Sequeira
Jonathan Sequeira 11 years ago

Notice the variation of colors in the same species.

http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1305...

Jonathan Sequeira
Jonathan Sequeira 12 years ago

I post 4 diferent colors, they are the same species.

Jonathan Sequeira
Spotted by
Jonathan Sequeira

Heredia, Costa Rica

Spotted on May 10, 2008
Submitted on Aug 24, 2011

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